Initially the soldier claimed the shooting occurred during an armed firefight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants but the prosecuted soldier later admitted firing at him " as a deterrent ".

Initially the sentry posts were staffed by armed police almost continuously.

Initially, the taxi driver said he was under the dashboard of his cab when the shooting started and could not see who shot first, although he contradicted his statement a few days later in an interview with the San Juan Star, a local newspaper, stating that he ducked under the dashboard of the car after the three men ( the two activists and the undercover agent ) left the car, and that he saw " 10 heavily armed men " approaching.

Initially the LDV were poorly armed, since the regular forces had priority for weapons and equipment.

Initially these units were equipped with the Halberstadt D. II, the Fokker D. I, D. II and D. III, each armed with one synchronized lMG 08 machine gun, but by the end of 1916 increasing numbers of the new Albatros fighters were well on the way to establishing the German air superiority that was to mark the first half of 1917.

Initially consisting of only 39 men, each armed with a Vis pistol, with time it had grown to become one of the most numerous and most notable Jewish resistance organizations in Poland.

Initially after the occupation of Poland by the Soviet Union and Germany, the peasant parties were reluctant to forming their own armed resistance forces.

Initially, there were two types with two roles: the ' males ', armed with naval 6 pdr guns and machine guns, and ' females ', armed with only machine guns that supported the ' males '.

Initially armed with a standard-issue service revolver, the player can acquire upgraded weapons during the course of play: a Magnum Gun, a Semi-automatic pistol, a shotgun, or an assault rifle.

Initially the Polish forces did not meet much armed resistance, and a later Lithuanian counter-offensive was stopped by Military Commission of League of Nations.

Initially, Malvineous is armed with a " laser bullet ", allowing only one shot on-screen at a time and it can be slightly controlled by pressing up or down, in which the laser bullet will slightly advance upwards or downwards.

Initially dismissed by Machel as a group of " armed bandits ", RENAMO's war of destabilization developed into a full-scale national threat by 1981.

Initially based amongst exiles in Algeria and, especially, Libya, MPLA launched an armed campaign in June 1990.

Initially the partners, reaffirming citizenship, were as a simply defensive Association against the factious crowd, robbers or criminals, but as the Republicanism became more radical in Paris, and as foreign war became increasingly inevitable, the association radicalized in the early 1792, now favoring armed struggle.

Initially, the Vietnamese guerrilla forces, the Viet Minh, were unsuccessful in dealing with the better-trained and-equipped French forces.

Initially the division of the Arabic-speaking areas of the Ottoman Empire were to be divided by the Sykes-Picot Agreement ; however, the final disposition was at the San Remo conference of 1920, whose determinations on the mandates, their boundaries, purposes and organization was ratified by the League in 1921 and put into effect in 1922.

Initially adopting a traditionalist Leninist party organization, together with a vanguard cadre from its labour-leaning faction in 1958, the PAP Executive later expelled the leftist faction, bringing the ideological basis of the party into the centre, and later in the 1960s, moving further to the right.

In the late 1980s, the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) unsuccessfully lobbied against the introduction of DAT devices into the U. S. Initially, the organization threatened legal action against any manufacturer attempting to sell DAT machines in the country.

Initially, the Katipunan was a secret organization until its discovery in 1896 that led to the outbreak of the Philippine Revolution.

Initially, there was much resistance within the movement against the founding of a political party, motivated by Robert Michels ' iron law of oligarchy, which claims that movements inevitably degenerate into oligarchies when they create a formal organization.

Initially, the organization was for individual parliamentarians, but has since transformed into an international organization of the parliaments of sovereign states.

Initially it could find no lesbian lawyers who were willing or able to be openly associated with a gay activist organization.

Initially an agrarian organization associated with the policies of the Grange, from 1878 the organization took the name Greenback Labor Party and attempted to forge a farmer-labor alliance, adding industrial reforms to its agenda, such as support of the 8-hour day and opposition to the use of state or private force to suppress union strikes.

Initially, the remit of the Mozilla Foundation grew to become much wider than that of mozilla. org, with the organization taking on many tasks that were traditionally left to Netscape and other vendors of Mozilla technology.

Initially based in the San Francisco Bay area and Toronto the ET was to define itself as a public faction of the SL and sought to be readmitted to the ranks of the parent organization.

Initially based in Frankfurt, the SAG gradually developed a national structure but remained a relatively small organization.

Initially the fighter squadrons were under the command of the 6441st Tactical Fighter Wing, activated in July 1964 to control the F-105 squadrons after their parent organization, the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, relocated to George Air Force Base, California, to become a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II unit.

Initially, the organization was known as SAVAMA, and intended to replace SAVAK, Iran's intelligence agency during the rule of the Shah, but it is unclear how much continuity there is between the two organizations — while their role is similar, their underlying ideology is radically different.

Initially, the depression possessed a combination of tropical and subtropical characteristics ; it remained attached to a nearby frontal zone, though the organization of the convection and a warm core within the system resulted in classification as a tropical cyclone.

Initially, NewLabour maintained a separate identity within the Alliance, keeping its own party organization intact.

Initially, membership in the organization was ex-officio ; a student automatically belonged to the organization if he held one of the major student organization positions on campus.

Initially a sounding board for the fans ( and critics ) of the festival, the boards have become an integral part of the festival organization with regular contributions from Festival Director John Probyn and Promoter Andy Copping.

Initially both factions agreed that the GMP ought to stay intact and that it would be spared from the split for the sake of unity of the mass organization movement, but soon competition over control over the organization started.

Initially, this was due to a local split in the Winnipeg labour movement -- the regional Dominion Labour Party had been taken over by rightist elements, and the parliamentary labour caucus had retaliated by creating a separate ILP organization.

Initially, most of its members were dissidents within Fatah who had been close to Abu Ali Iyad, the commander of Fatah forces in northern Jordan who continued to fight the Jordanian Army after the PLO leadership withdrew.

Initially, police said Sawan was a member of the PLO, though that organisation denied any involvement.

Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.

Initially, Hamrick's reaction to A-Z going into the passenger car market was discouraging.

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

Initially in a literary revival Renaissance was determined to move away from the religion-dominated Middle Ages and to turn its attention to the plight of the individual man in society.

Initially it was conceived as a difference engine curved back upon itself, in a generally circular layout, with the long store exiting off to one side.

Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.

Initially Aster computer b. v. was called MCP ( Music print Computer Product ), because it was specialized in producing computer assisted printing of sheet music.

Initially the work was not well received, due, in part, to the many gaps in arguments and complicated equations.

Initially, it was " Thürer ," meaning doormaker, which is " ajtós " in Hungarian ( from " ajtó ", meaning door ).

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

Initially built from wood, the fort was eventually rebuilt in stone.

Initially the source was Latin, later Gascon ( a branch of Occitan ) in the northeast, Navarro-Aragonese in the southeast and Spanish in the southwest.

Initially, a wireless room was established at Bletchley Park.

Initially bronze was made out of copper and arsenic to form arsenic bronze.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.

Initially he was counting the tempo with a metronome and looking for records with the same tempo.

Initially, the plan was also to include a rail connection between Boston's two major train terminals.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.

Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview package of channels.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.